Il Envoyera En France Les Francais
Fugitifs Qu'il Y Pourra Trouver Et Particulierement Ceux De La Religion
Pretendue-Reformee (Huguenots) - (New York Col.
Docs.
IX 422)
Vide - Le Roy a Denonville, 7 juin 1689 le Ministre a Denonville, meme
date, le Ministre a Frontenac, meme date ordre du Roy a Vaudreuil, meme
date le Roy au Sieur de la Coffinere; meme date, Champagny au Ministre, 16
Nov. 1689
COPY OF THE EPITAPH PREPARED BY THE ACADEMIE DES INSCRIPTIONS AT PARIS
FOR THE MARQUIS OF MONTCALM'S TOMB.
Leave was asked by the French Government to have the marble tablet, on
which this epitaph was inscribed, sent out to Quebec, and granted by the
English Government (Vide William Pitt's Letter, 10th April, 1761).
This inscription, from some cause or other, never reached Quebec.
EPITAPH
Hic jacet
Utroque in orbe aeternum victurus,
LUDOVICUS JOSEPHUS DE MONTCALM GOZON
Marchio Sancti Verani, Baro Gabriaci,
Ordinis Sancti Ludovici Commendator,
Legatus Generalis Exercituum Gallicorum
Egregius et Civis et Miles,
Nullius rei appetens praeterquam verae laudis
Ingenio felici et literis exculto
Omnes Militiae gradus per continua decora emensus,
Omnium Belli Artium, temporum, discriminum gnarus,
In Italia, in Bohemia, in Germania
Dux industrius
Mandata sibi ita semper gerens ut majoribus par haberetur,
Jam clarus periculis
Ad tutandam Canadensem Provinciam missu
Parva militum manu Hostium copias non semel repulit,
Propugnacula cepit viris armisque instructissima
Algoris, mediae, vigiliarum, laboris patiens,
Suis ucice prospiciens immemor sui,
Hostis acer, victor mansuetus
Fortunam virtute, virium inopiam peritia et celeritate compensavit,
Imminens Coloniae fatum et consilio et manu per quadriennium sustinuit
Tandem ingentem Exercitum Duce strenuo et audaci,
Classemque omni bellorum mole gravem,
Mulitiplici prudentia diu ludificatus
Vi pertractus ad dimicandum,
In prima acie, in primo conflictu vulneratus,
Religioni quam semper coluerat innitens,
Magno suoram desiderio, nec sine hostium moerore,
Extinctus est
Die XIV.
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